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98 WESTERN HINDOO ST AN.
and often the Cobra de Capello, that dreadful {hake, which is
attendant on feveral of the incarnations of Fificbenou. A fifh
i&one, which affifts to explain the object of the fculptures and
ufes of the excavations..
These caverns are the haunts of monftrous ferpents. Hamil-
ton, i. 2.39, tells us, that oil firing his fufil, to enjoy the thunder-
ing echo of the report,, he difturbed a Boa, fifteen feet in length,.
and two feet in girth, from its antient fear, which put the tra-
veller to fpeedy flight, and an end to his curiofity.
Most of the figures are coloffal,, from twelve to twenty-three
feet high. Some of them, with all their extravagancies, are faid
to be finely executed: many are crofs leg'd, in their attitude of*
prayer; many have rofaries, which prove that thefe places were.
objects of devotion.
The woman with three faces and four arms is engraven in
Mr. Fyke's account. I beg leave to make a few remarks on that
figure: round her neck are five necklaces, rich in pearls and gems,
With pendent jewels;. her hair is long, and hangs in beautiful;
ringlets; her ears (not her ear-rings as they are called) hang to
a vafl length, exactly in the Malabar mode;.-. and her head-
drefs is conic, in the Cbinefe fafhion, which might have been
in ufe in early times. The lait is dropt; the ftrange deformity
of long ears are ftill retained: fo far is certainly of eaftern;
fculpture.
But what can be faid to the figures found in another cave,
in the neighborhood of Bombay, not exprefled by name: they
are engraven in volume vii. of the Arcbaelogia; fome have the
faufage curl, others the cochlear twirl, in the hair, and others
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and often the Cobra de Capello, that dreadful {hake, which is
attendant on feveral of the incarnations of Fificbenou. A fifh
i&one, which affifts to explain the object of the fculptures and
ufes of the excavations..
These caverns are the haunts of monftrous ferpents. Hamil-
ton, i. 2.39, tells us, that oil firing his fufil, to enjoy the thunder-
ing echo of the report,, he difturbed a Boa, fifteen feet in length,.
and two feet in girth, from its antient fear, which put the tra-
veller to fpeedy flight, and an end to his curiofity.
Most of the figures are coloffal,, from twelve to twenty-three
feet high. Some of them, with all their extravagancies, are faid
to be finely executed: many are crofs leg'd, in their attitude of*
prayer; many have rofaries, which prove that thefe places were.
objects of devotion.
The woman with three faces and four arms is engraven in
Mr. Fyke's account. I beg leave to make a few remarks on that
figure: round her neck are five necklaces, rich in pearls and gems,
With pendent jewels;. her hair is long, and hangs in beautiful;
ringlets; her ears (not her ear-rings as they are called) hang to
a vafl length, exactly in the Malabar mode;.-. and her head-
drefs is conic, in the Cbinefe fafhion, which might have been
in ufe in early times. The lait is dropt; the ftrange deformity
of long ears are ftill retained: fo far is certainly of eaftern;
fculpture.
But what can be faid to the figures found in another cave,
in the neighborhood of Bombay, not exprefled by name: they
are engraven in volume vii. of the Arcbaelogia; fome have the
faufage curl, others the cochlear twirl, in the hair, and others
, 7 the